How can school principals develop personal resilience in an increasingly complex role? The project investigates how individual resources and organisational conditions interact to create sustainable...
How do we perceive individuals with a foreign accent or a regional dialect? And how do these individuals experience speaking with such linguistic variation? This project seeks to answer these...
Being forced to flee one’s home country can place a significant strain on both body and mind. This project investigates whether a course about mental health can improve well-being among individuals...
In this collaborative project, leadership development is studied in partnership with Sundsvall Municipality. The project is interdisciplinary and is conducted using mixed scientific methods.
This project assesses whether a body oriented intervention can help to improve social well-being in individuals affected by child maltreatment who currently suffer from symptoms of posttraumatic...
Bridging Leisure is a cross-border Swedish-Norwegian project that enhances leisure-time centres and SFO services for children aged 9-12. The project promotes inclusion, social connectedness, and...
This project will focus on whether and whether mental training can provide students with useful "tools" in life and in their studies.
Our network aims to understand the causes and consequences of child abuse in different cultures. The project will generate knowledge to develop interventions to improve the mental and physical...
In this research project, we want to gain knowledge about children and young people who live in foster care and their relationships with their network of origin.
Why is there such a high comorbidity between anxiety and depressive diagnoses? Here we investigate possible biological explanations using multiomics and brain imaging.
Many people who are displaced have experienced traumatic events, something that can lead to the development of trauma-related mental health issues. This project investigates whether an innovative...
The climate crisis is a "wicked problem"; global in scale and local in its effects (glocal), generating a deluge of intersecting climate injustices.
We live in a time when democracy, social inequalities, and environmental issues can no longer be treated as separate concerns within education. How can education contribute to democratic societies...
In northern Sweden, within the area called Saepmie, Saami and non-Saami live and work integrated. Here, school leaders have a particularly important role in creating understanding, respect and...
How can municipal workplaces become more attractive and sustainable in a changing world of work? This project explores how modern work practices, such as activity-based working, affect work...
The project focuses on how teaching in SAEC can be developed and how accessible learning environments can be created to promote pupils' equality in teaching. It is carried out in four SAEC through...
The nursing shortage is a major common challenge for all of Sweden and Norway, and it is especially challenging in rural areas where it is difficult to recruit nurses who actually stay in the region.
This research project investigates how generative AI can be integrated into upper secondary school, introductory program. The aim is to develop reading and writing education for second language...
The PhD project examines long-term changes in social assistance recipiency and duration, as well as geographical clustering and interdependence between Swedish municipalities from 1986 to 2020.
The goal is to create opportunities to analyse and develop through a long-term investment in a joint graduate school in two phases. deeper knowledge and new ways of working around the digitalisatio...
How can nature contribute to children’s learning, health, and well-being – while also creating better working conditions for preschool staff? The project “Indoors good – outdoors best” is a...
The aim of this project is to broaden the scope of competence, to see possibilities across borders, and not let preconceptions limit the view. We study: (1) how employers conceive of competence, wh...
The thesis examines how the climate crisis and its consequences for human well-being are understood, integrated and addressed within social work in Sweden.
This project advances precision medicine in internet-based CBT by integrating process-based therapy with machine learning to individualize psychological treatments and improve clinical outcomes.
Protected shelters are vital for women exposed to violence and is provided by non-profit or for-profit actors. In 2024, the government introduced regulation because of “unscrupulous actors,” which...
Pupil health is a shared responsibility involving many actors. This project explores how pupils, guardians, and school staff understand pupil health work, as well as the similarities and tensions...
Giving birth is a major life event, often in the most positive regard. Sadly, some have a traumatic birth experience instead. In this project, we are developing and evaluating a multidisciplinary...
An increasing amount of people are displaced globally. Many cannot return home, and integration in the new country is a goal for both individual and society. This project explores how mental health...
How is student health work shaped in rural schools? This project examines how organisational, professional and geographical conditions influence the leadership, organisation and practice of student...
The aim is to carry out a feasibility study to gather basic information on the work of social services in geographically peripheral areas, with a focus on interventions targeting children in need.
The project’s primary focus is on developing knowledge regarding preventive interventions in social work with older adults, adopting a social rights perspective.
Youth centre staff see how crime, drugs and vulnerability weaken young people’s future hope and identify a need to strengthen it. The project will map needs and develop a research-based approach wi...
The project examines how assessment shapes students’ emotions and sense of self through narrative analyses of student experiences. It highlights ethical dilemmas and pressures in schooling and show...
Children and young people with intellectual disabilities are a vulnerable group and do not have the same preconditions for learning as other children. This can lead to physical, mental, social...
The main objective of the project is to create conditions for cross-border cooperation for a stronger border region between municipalities, teachers, higher education institutions and student...
The project is an interactive evaluation study of the work being carried out to create meeting places for young people (16-24 year) in Torvalla, Östersund. The aim is to produce knowledge about...
The project aims to clarify how the interplay between different forms of expressions supports students’ learning of number sense and to develop design principles for teaching at different education...
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